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<< The rest given is your insurance policy. It's cheaper than vet bills.
It will keep your horse competing longer. Remember, your competitions
are also part of your training program. You want to use them to build
your horse up rather than tear it down. Rest is part of conditioning.
The cardiovascular benefits of pushing the training schedule do not
outweigh the benefits of enough rest.
LindaVan >>
I agree with this philosophy--just wrote a 5-article series on "training
cycles" for the Japanese Keiba Book. My complaint is with the "10 miles=1 day
off" formula. If this is the case, then you're burning your horses up for
some reason--lack of adequate preparation of some kind.
While rest is integral to any conditioning program, it must be scheduled as
properly as work. You need to determine each horse's
work/recovery/rebound/supercompensation cycle and schedule your exercise
cycles to more your horse forward athletically. Too long a rest period ruins
the effect of walking up the "supercompensation ladder".
ti
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